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Librarian family man by day, librarian family man by night. Half of @CanonBallPod and @Thrawnderdome, member @BhamDSA
Birmingham, AL
Joined July 2014
Becoming a dinosaur scientist and winning a gold medal for jumping on the trampoline, don't tell any 7 year old their dreams are out of reach.
OMG, Bryony Page, who just won Olympic Gold for trampolining, studied palaeontology and wrote her dissertation on acoustic signalling in dinosaurs 🤩🦖🦕
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The whales, acid rain, and the ozone layer are big time conservation/environmentalist successes but much like Y2K mitigation are un/misremembered because of that success.
For a certain age group "Save the Whales" became a sort of pejorative, something to say when you sneer at some bleeding-heart types with hope in their eyes who dared to think they could change the world. The thing is it worked. It's the biggest success story in conservation.
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Get a load of the "atheist" who thinks human linguistic categories have cosmic reality.
Sex is clearly binary, declaring oneself to be otherwise is a distortion of reality. #Gender #Science #PoetryOfReality
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“Barred for life from acquiring relics” wizard conclave ass punishment.
Michael Steinhardt, the billionaire hedge fund pioneer and one of New York's most prolific antiquities collectors, has surrendered 180 stolen objects valued at $70 million and been barred for life from acquiring any other relics, officials said Monday.
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Plato-ass little kid.
"A small child once said to me: 'You don't draw Bugs Bunny, you draw pictures of Bugs Bunny.’ That’s a very profound observation because it means he thinks the characters are alive, which, as far as I am concerned, is true.’' . Chuck Jones (1912-2002) was born on this date.
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Pricing everyone else out of the Beautiful Weather capital of the world and doing this instead of anything else. Really captures the perversity at the heart of it all.
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Pretty funny how the right has absorbed and metabolized the liberal "get a bunch of people to mill around for a while" demonstration tactic but with the added feature that they don't have to get out of their cars.
WOW! Thousands of patriots showing their support for President Trump on Long Island. The FBI made a big mistake.
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My mom tells of my great-grandmother who was of this cohort. She loved to sit in a rocking chair with my young mom and watch professional wrestling on TV, muttering "Oh mercy" when they got a good smack in.
i feel like the craziest generation to live in would be if you’re born in the late 1880s and travel in covered wagon as a child and then when you’re very old in 1969 you see a man walk on the moon on tv.
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Today I learned that Roman gym owners sold Gamer Girl Bathwater.
1/3) The grimy mixture of olive oil, sweat and dirt scraped from the bodies of top athletes and gladiators, a mixture known as "strigimentum", was sometimes collected by officials in charge of the gymnasia and sold to the public at huge prices.
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They hate it BECAUSE it serves the local community. Patriotism is steeped in disgust for the actual existing community because all communities are insufficiently pure of contaminants. Patriotism is only negation, it only ever bears evil fruit.
Liverpool's Spellow Lane library torched last night. What could be more 'patriotic' than destroying a centre which serves the local community?
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@woodcut_beavis Dingoes stand in for indigenous Australians in what experts are calling an “appallingly offensive” minisode of Bluey.
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@Markidactyl Him: You might say I RHODES my father's coattails into being hired for this position. Me: I can't ask you to just leave the library, sir, but I need you to understand that you were not hired for this position.
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Any kid bored by the prose and story of Mockingbird is straight up not going to make it past page two of the Iliad. Just because a work is about men murdering each other does not mean a boy will enjoy it.
Was thinking about the consequences of making boys read books like this instead of The Iliad and The Song of Roland. It set me back many years.
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The year is 2145. Vice President Hezakiah McCain-Pelosi of the Real Provisional USA announces that 9/11 has been avenged once more with the execution of the Mayor of Junktown, convicted of Blood Guilt for having an ancestor who sold a cinnamon bun to a hijacker.
Assisted in the clandestine travel to Afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who carried out the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.
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@justinboldaji Pure uncut publisher profiteering. Some "retire" the digital copies libraries buy after 25-30 check outs because that's the typical lifespan of a physical book and make you buy it again.
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A cool thing about conservatives is how much they loathe actual Americans. He's talking about the 90% of people in the United States who attended or currently attend a public school, applying what he sees as contemptuous labels to us.
Actor Kirk Cameron says if you send your kids to public schools, they'll come back as "little Marxists, little statists, little atheists, drag queens, strippers, drug dealers. you name it."
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@bdmcclay Some people just cannot handle the fact that people who make their living doing work that is not considered prestigious are also capable of exceptional things.
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@LegoRacers2 This is like when Kraft rebranded to Mondelez. Companies taking a semester abroad and coming back insisting you call them “Beto”.
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@allahliker No replies yet, one like, this is the screenshot of someone on the lookout for buttmogging.
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@crackth3skye @Devon_Wiersma You know how annoying it is to grind for crafting supplies? What if I told you you had to do that in a different game entirely? Not so annoying now is it!.
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@socialaskan Did they have to do that thing where you hire a woman to meet you in a hotel room and hire a private detective to take pictures so that you could divorce up through last year?.
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My dad has spent his empty nest years as an open handed patron of the Birmingham DIY music scene. Helped rig the PA system at a punk dive, pays cover for 3-5 shows a week, always buys merch, tips the bar staff like a king, and has archived years worth of footage of bands.
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@abs_sweetmarie Look, buddy, if he’s making a movie you’re damn right he’s going to put a monstrous fetus in it.
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"Folks, they're teaching propaganda like Howard Zinn. Very low energy, very little Hobsbawm, very little world-systems analysis. Kids are coming home from school and they can't even tell you how settler-colonial polities develop from semi-peripheries to imperial cores!".
Trump is reading a speech at the National Archives Museum criticizing the left's approach to the study of history, complaining of the New York Times' 1619 Project, critical race theory, and "propaganda tracts like those of Howard Zinn.".
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@craig_rangoon This is the first time a male actor has stepped outside of typical gender expression in a performance. Inspiring.
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